mismate
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Phyllie, don't mismate; those that do regret it.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
Of the 1975 comedy-drama "Lucky Lady," for example, he wrote that it was a "cynical, vulgar, contrived, mismated, violent, uneven and uninteresting disaster."
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2014
Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners.
From Time Magazine Archive
In her mourning she made a wonderfully appealing picture, as she gazed down at her plate, even though her lowered lashes half-masked the mismated beauty of her eyes.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was simply a case of mismating, and no good would result from the union.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
It was a most queer mismating, for the man was plain, sincere and honorable, and she was almost everything else.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
In order to explain what perfect marriage is, Swedenborg works by the process of elimination and reveals every possible condition of mismating.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
The contradiction and ludicrousness of this mismating is so easy of explanation that the incongruity is missed.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
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